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HyperTalk Reference

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create

create menu menuName

create stack fileName [with bkgnd ¬

    [in a new window]

The create menu command makes a new menu and adds it to the menu bar. HyperCard displays an error message if you try to create a menu that already exists.

Use the put command to add menu items to the new menu. (Click Related Topics for more information about put.)

The create stack command creates a new stack from within a handler without presenting the New Stack dialog box. The cards in the new stack are the same size as the cards in the current stack.

HyperCard sets the function the result to "Couldn't create stack." if it can’t create the stack; otherwise, it sets the result to empty, goes to the new stack, and sends a newStack message to the only card in that stack (that is, the current card).

Examples

create stack "Junk"

create stack "Junk" with background "Content"

ask file "Create a stack called:"

if it is not empty then create stack it

create menu "Brass"

put "Trumpet,French Horn,Trombone,Tuba" into menu "Brass"

Demo Script

on createMenu

  if there is a menu "Sort" then delete menu "Sort"

  create menu "Sort"

  put "By name,By number,By International,-,Ascending,Descending" ¬

  into menu "Sort"

  set the checkMark of menuItem 1 of menu "Sort" to true

  set the checkMark of menuItem 5 of menu "Sort" to true

end createMenu

Placeholders

menuName

A text expression that evaluates to the name of one of HyperCard’s menus or of a menu created by the user.

For example:

"File"

"Edit"

"Go"

"MyMenu"

fileName

An expression that evaluates to a text string that is also a valid Macintosh filename.

For example:

"my stack"

"HD20:Wally's Stacks:my stack"

"my file alias"

bkgnd

A HyperTalk expression that identifies a background by name, number, or id, using one of the following forms:

bkgnd id posInteger

bkgnd text -- name

bkgnd posInteger -- number

ordinal bkgnd

position bkgnd

For example:

bkgnd id 3894

bkgnd "Index"

bkgnd 1

prev bkgnd

previous bkgnd

next bkgnd

this bkgnd

first bkgnd

last bkgnd

middle bkgnd

any bkgnd

From within a background script, the term me refers to that background.

When a background receives a the message [the] target, that message is referring to the background.